[Vision2020] Say What? Schwarzenegger

[Glenn Schwaller]

I was speaking tongue-in-cheek.  Of course he was making funnies -
it's well known he is an Arizona immigration law opponent and made no
attempt at hiding it in his quip.  Personally I found it to be in poor
taste and dismissive of the impact this law will have. What I find
unfortunate is he perpetuates the myth the law is nothing but racial
profiling, and fails to acknowledge that it seeks to do what the
existing Federal law enforcement groups are afraid to do.

I'm getting a bit tired of the rhetoric surrounding the "need for
unskilled laborers to do the jobs Americans don't want to do."  To
portray immigrants as simply those who will fill a niche not even the
lowliest of American will fill is more dismissive and racial than any
law dealing will illegal acts.

Arizona currently has almost 500,000 unemployed, almost 2 million in
Californa, over 150,000 in New Mexico and 200,000 in Nevada.
Seriously - these people, as part of their unemployment benefits,
cannot performs in some capacity in these "menial agricultural jobs"?

And I have no idea what constitutes a "faux-Libertarian Tea
Party-kind-of-guy" as Ms Mix seems to portray me.  Just a bit more
snarkiness from someone who contemptuously  derides all others who are
a bit snarkie.  I guess it's different when it's done in a sense of
Christian Love and Fellowship.

GS

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 20:53:23 Sam Scripter wrote:
>> Why you pickin' on Arnold?
>
> I don't think anyone here is picking on Arnold. At this point in his
> life's success, for all practical purposes, he is beyond being picked
> upon. There may be people here who are revealing information about
> themselves in reaction to Arnold's activities ...
>
> "We have met the enemy and he is us." Walt Kelly, Earth Day, 1970
>
> If there were not so many drug-using Americans, not so many
> money-seeking Mexicans would be trying to sell drugs to Americans.
> Without so many drug-selling Mexicans, there would not be so many
> battles among the Mexicans over aspects of the American drug market,
> and those battles would not so often extend themselves into Arizona,
> with fatal consequences on both the American and Mexican sides of the
> border.
>
> The Arizona populace's reaction to Mexican immigration pressure is as
> much a consequence of Americans' needs for drugs, for agricultural
> laborers, and for inexpensive laborers generally, and of the strong
> Mexican willingness to supply those needs, as it is a reflection of
> preferences among Anglos and Latinos for their own cultures.
>
> If there were not markets of voyeurs for Arnold's body-building and
> movies, he would not be the success he is today. If there were not
> markets for Mexican-supplied drugs and labor, Arizona, and other
> states, would not have some of the problems they have today.
>
>
> Ken
>
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